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  1. HeidiL

    LIVE from the Camino Current big wave at beginning of Francés

    Every time I have volunteered in Grado, which is the first stop after Oviedo for most people on the Primitivo, we were full very early on Saturdays. A lot of people start walking on Saturdays; if you can hold back and start a couple of days later (or walk non-Brierley distances) you will...
  2. HeidiL

    Resurrection Sunday

    I found a list of the processions in Santiago this Easter: Here. During the procession itself, some places in the centre of Santiago may be very, very crowded.
  3. HeidiL

    Walking during Semana Santa 2024

    Burgos - especially Easter morning. Zamora (on the Vía de la Plata) is also great. But really, some of our best Easter experiences in Spain have been in tiny villages where we just happened to stumble across a procession.
  4. HeidiL

    Favourite Accommodation Splurge along the Camino

    We (husband, son (then 16) arrived in Santiago after an unusually wet camino from Porto, Easter 2013. We had FOUR hours without rain. On the last day, we met a North-American couple and walked with them, the rest of the time we saw very few pilgrims. Arriving in Santiago, I led the wet...
  5. HeidiL

    From Burgos to Santiago in March-April - with a child?

    Many years later (because I was looking for another thread and this one popped up): very soon we're going to Spain to walk the final bit of Vía de la Plata - Cubo del Vino to Astorga. Our son (26) will be joining us. He believes that walking in Spain is just what you're supposed to do at...
  6. HeidiL

    Asphalt and other trail types on Camino Frances

    I read somewhere that Camino de Madrid is the one with least road walking. I think that may be right - I still remember day after day in deep forests...
  7. HeidiL

    I need to shorten my walk

    Many years ago, we started in Carrión de los Condes and walked through to Santiago - and were very happy with the choice. We didn't have to part from the friends we'd made on the way, and got Compostelas with the whole distance. Have a look at the camino planner and play around with the...
  8. HeidiL

    LIVE from the Camino Update from the Nájera municipal albergue

    Jardin Botanico de la Rioja.
  9. HeidiL

    LIVE from the Camino Update from the Nájera municipal albergue

    OK, I'm home, there really wasn't time to report much during my stay, which included a solo weekend with 7+6+7 pilgrims. It was great, and I really enjoyed it. There were pilgrims from 21 different countries during my stay (November 14th to 30th), anything from 2 to 14 at the same time, and the...
  10. HeidiL

    LIVE from the Camino Update from the Nájera municipal albergue

    Checking in from El Buen Yantar - the last chance for the other hospitalera and me to have an evening meal together that we didn’t cook ourselves, since Bruce leaves tomorrow. Sniff.
  11. HeidiL

    Lets Build an Albergue!

    Shower stalls with doors, not just curtains. And well-maintained (bunk) beds that don't creak when people turn over in the night. A way of contacting the hospitalero/a when they disappear in the afternoon and don't show up again. Some kind of laundry facilities and a place to dry stuff. Most...
  12. HeidiL

    Is anyone doing the Camino without any specific purpose

    I am a person who walks. The camino walking has become part of my identity. For me, I really like the way life becomes simple when I walk. As I tend to say to people who haven't walked: There are only two important things on the camino for me: Putting one foot in front of the other, and what's...
  13. HeidiL

    A pet peeve

    My husband and I heard a talk from two Norwegians who had walked (I think from Roncesvalles to Santiago?) and had come straight to the Norwegian embassy in Madrid, where we were living at the time, in 1997, and decided this was something we needed to learn more about. In 1998 we drove in...
  14. HeidiL

    Camino Snobs

    There are so many people walking nowadays that I'm sure you will find EVERYTHING on the caminos. Including snobs - I have myself encountered a man who thought I couldn't be a real pilgrim since I didn't wear heavy boots. Live and let live, say I.
  15. HeidiL

    Camino Frances 2019 PostScript 2: CAMINO COLLOCATION

    Camino Gaze - the way my eyesight focuses on the far horizon, instead of the little details nearby.
  16. HeidiL

    Help Albergue Santa Cruz in Sahagun

    Donated.
  17. HeidiL

    Taxi's

    Just remember that if you want the Compostela you need to have walked the last 100 km. Just take plenty of breaks, drink enough water and go at the speed of the slowest walker...
  18. HeidiL

    Waking up in the night

    I always wake up around 3.30-4 and stay awake for an hour before I go back to sleep. I just read on my phone, inside my sleeping bag so the light won't bother anyone. No complaints so far, I think just having something that will keep you quiet is good enough.
  19. HeidiL

    From which country this pilgrim is from?

    Haglöf - Scandinavian. Norrøna - Norwegian.
  20. HeidiL

    Doing Camino with Family

    We walked with our son the first time when he was 8, and then we walked again when he was 11,12,13 and so on. Last year, when he was 23, his backpack was bigger than mine, and he knows everything about walking caminos. It's simply a thing we DO as a family, at least once a year. Let them have...

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